I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

What can't be cured must be endured.